Record Details
pages 138-139
Oregon Digital
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Identifier | ORU_WTXT_025br http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,284 |
| Title | pages 138-139 |
| Relation | The Columbia Unveiled |
| Date | 2004-07-12 |
| Rights | This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested. |
| Type | page |
| Format | Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 130,778 bytes 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - grayscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted from 0 - 1.00 - 255 to 0 - 1.00 - 249, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created. |
| Description | breakers of Surprise Rapids have about as evil a reputation as has Death Rapids. It is about as dangerous to navigate and is much longer, having a total length of three miles. The roughest section is the first mile and a half, and is generally portaged, although a crew of men, working together, can line it—something that would be exceedingly risky for one man to do. However, Alphonse Emond, whom I met later, told me that he had run the whole rapids at a low stage of water, in a specially... |
